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| The town begins to swell for the evening's festivities once the sun sets. |
The ground crunched as I shuffled across the patio, broken glass strewn amongst the glitter. A weak sun had begun to throw its light on the aftermath of our extravaganza. The bar staff formed a circle and laughed at the craziness of it all as we enjoyed the cold Trujillo beers that our manager Greg had bought us. What a New Years!
Loki is not only the biggest hostel in South America, it is also world famous for throwing incredible parties, so naturally our New Years event was massive. The 300 room hostel was booked solid (some of the staff beds were even rented out for the night), and the guest list had an additional 300 people on it. Needless to say our venue was incredibly packed from about 8pm till 5am when the bar finally closed.
We had tons of drinks, a fire works show, a fire show, incredible music, inside and outside drinking areas, free shots on the New Year of your country, and to cap it all off we offered free champagne and a place to watch the fireworks over the city of Cusco from wasteland out back of the hostel. Some people wanted to go to the main square but I had heard from my managers that it often gets really crowded. People get robbed. Latinos pee on you (honestly when they have had anything more than one beer, they pee anywhere). So I was quite content to stay working with my friends and make the night great for everyone.
When we finally closed around 5 or 5:30, we wearily cleaned the bar as best we could before sharing a few new years drinks together in private... We finally made it out to the patio around 6, and to bed around 7:30 (at least I did). To be sure, it was one of the wildest and most fun New Years I have ever had, mainly because I had my incredible friends working beside me to make it so!
In a tribute, I want to thank my fellow staff, you guys made it what it was!
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| Colin our broken-footed Canadian getting wrapped up in a gold sheet by Iris since in Peru its good luck to wear yellow for New Years. |
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| Ahhh confusion begins! |
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| An airbrush artist drawing custom Loki shirts for guests.. this one features the signature, Blood Bomb drink. |
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| Alan the hostel manager lighting the "Loki 2014" fire set... It was a great touch! |
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| The flames engulf their fuel, 2014 is about to start! |
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| The crowd goes wild in the firelight |
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| The fireworks for 2014 over the main square, or Plaza de Armas as seen from our vantage behind the hostel |
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| Somehow my face got painted by some latinas over the course of the night.... |
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| Loki had its own fireworks show to boot! |
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| Jasmine, the beautiful reception manager, and I get silly as we watch the fireworks |
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| Fire makes people dance... some people choose to do so in very tiny yellow underwear! |
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| Ahhh yet another ruined picture by google! Thanks guys! This is the San Franciscan church seen from our hill that night. |
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| Greg the bar manager and "Angry" Henry prep the free champagne for the countdown. |
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| Beautiful fireworks over the city |
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